# Replication Materials — Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor

This directory contains the replication package for the PRQ article *“Listening to an Authoritarian Neighbor: Russian Propaganda on Chinese Social Media after the Ukraine Invasion.”* It includes the cleaned data, analysis scripts, and outputs needed to reproduce the quantitative results reported in the manuscript and appendix.

## Contents
- `replication_clean.R` — single-path R script that loads the Weibo dataset, fits all regression models, and recreates manuscript/appendix tables and figures inside the `0713/` output folder.
- `russiaweibo.RData` — main Weibo post-level dataset (`rtweibonew`) with narrative labels, engagement metrics, and sentiment variables.
- `china_russia_coop.csv`, `west_democracy.csv`, `west_hegemony.csv` — CSV files contain the search data compiled from Baidu Index.
- `russiainchina_segall0312.xlsx` —the file prepared for topic modeling.
- `topic_1205.ipynb` — exploratory notebook documenting topic-model inspection that informed narrative coding.

## Reproducing Tables and Figures
1. Open R (≥ 4.2 recommended) with the working directory set to this folder.
2. Ensure the packages listed at the top of `replication_clean.R` are installed (tidyverse, lubridate, rdrobust, stargazer, etc.).
3. Run `source("replication_clean.R")`. The script creates `0713/` if needed and writes all tables (`table1_main5_soft.html`, …) plus figure outputs there.

## Contact
For questions about the replication package, please reach out to the corresponding author of the PRQ article.
 *Ming Ma <ming.ma@fu-berlin.de>*
